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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:28:24 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] unify paravirt parts of system.h
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> It probably is safe to remove... but we currently support '2.8.95
> kernel loads/resumes 2.6.24 image'... which would break if 2.8 uses
> cr8.
> 
> So please keep it if it is not a big problem.
> 

Note that CR8 is an alias for the TPR in the APIC.

	-hpa
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